Senior Quality Engineer
Cortland, NY 
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Job Description
Cortland Company Inc. d/b/a Cortland Biomedical seeks a Senior Quality Engineer to establish, implement, and maintain the company's Quality Management System (QMS) in support of ISO 13485:2016 International Standard for Medical Devices and Good Manufacturing Practices. Lead and participate in activities to ensure that the QMS is adequate, suitable, and effective.  Duties include: 
  • Establish engineering study protocols and final reports (including deviation processing) using statistical methods and analysis in support of NPD/commercial design, manufacturing, and testing. Examples include EIOQ (hardware and software), test method validation (MSA/GR&R), process characterization, OQ, and PQ.
  • Participate in and lead product development teams by ensuring design and development planning, input, output, review, verification, validation, and production transfer activities are compliant with established procedures.
  • Perform formal problem solving, auditing, risk management (PFMEA), and validation/qualification.
  • Use a variety of statistical techniques including normality analysis, GR&R, capability analysis, and hypothesis testing of continuous and attribute data sets.
  • Support addition of suppliers to CBM’s ASL including auditing suppliers (finding resolution), implementing SQA’s, managing PPAP deliverables to close, and leading problem-solving to close.
  • Complete assigned CAPA’s in a timely manner to prevent occurrence and recurrence of issues using disciplined problem-solving techniques to support investigation, concise problem statement, containment, correction, root cause analysis, corrective and preventive action, and verification of effectiveness.
  • Plan, conduct, and report compliant internal audits (including well documented findings) in a timely manner in support of internal audit schedule and QMS requirements.
  • Collaborate with others to ensure nonconforming and potentially nonconforming product are accurately documented, identified, segregated, and dispositioned, and associated corrections are implemented.
  • Support safety policies and procedures in accordance with site requirements and at the direction of corporate health and safety officials.
  • Ensure quality records are established in support of Good Documentation Practices and records are controlled within QCBD for easy identification and retrieval.
  • Manage the timely calibration of monitoring and measuring equipment, ensuring out of calibration records are documented to close, all records are reviewed and approved, and records are maintained within QCBD.
  • Establish item-specific, statistically based quality plans to ensure receiving, in-process, and final inspection requirements are documented, communicated, and maintained within DHR and QCBD.
  • Analyze data to proactively identify trends/opportunities for KPI improvement, risk reduction, and customer satisfaction.
  • Provide reports to management and act independently to initiate/lead continuous improvement.
  • Assist in training company employees in Quality System related procedures and processes.
  • Supervise Quality Technicians in support of QMS roles, responsibility, and goals.
  • Work with engineering and operations to ensure that Quality Technician work is prioritized, scheduled, and completed.
  • Use a variety of other methods, tools, and technologies to perform job duties including Quality Control Statistical Techniques; problem solving tools including Cause and Effect Diagrams and Five-Why methodology; and Good Documentation Practices.
Job is located at company’s Cortland, NY, office but employee may work remotely 2 days per week.

Minimum Requirements: B
achelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field plus 5 years post-baccalaureate, progressive experience as a Quality Engineer within medical device manufacturing industry, including experience with Quality Management Systems, auditing, risk management (PFMEA), validation/qualification, and statistical techniques (Normality Analysis, GR&R, Capability Analysis, and Hypothesis Testing of Continuous and Attribute data sets), and ISO 13485 standards.


Alternatively, will accept Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field plus 2 years as a Quality Engineer within medical device manufacturing industry, including experience with Quality Management Systems, auditing, risk management (PFMEA), validation/qualification, statistical techniques (Normality Analysis, GR&R, Capability Analysis, and Hypothesis Testing of Continuous and Attribute data sets) and ISO 13485 standards.

To apply, send resume to: brandi.ledet@enerpac.com. Reference job title when applying.




 

 

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Job Summary
Company
Cortland Company Inc.
Employment Term and Type
Regular, Full Time
Required Education
Bachelor's Degree
Required Experience
5+ years
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